Symphony Dance
Sunday, October 17, 2010
5:00pm, Atlas Performing Arts Center 
Sarah Barham, 15, is a native of Bowie, Maryland and a homeschooled junior. She has been studying the piano for ten years, and her current teacher is Rosita Kerr Mang of Alexandria, Virginia.
In 2010, Sarah has performed on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage as a finalist of the NSO Young Soloists' Competition, at the Alden Theater in McLean, Virginia, at the Washington International Piano Festival, and at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts. Also in 2010, she has won 1st place in the Ylda Novik Memorial Concerto Competition, the VMTA State Concerto Competition, the MSMTA Spring Piano Solo Competition, the Judy Leonard Memorial Student Excellence Scholarship Competition, 2nd place in the Miriam Shields Gottlieb Memorial Piano Competition, and 1st place in the Virginia Northern District Auditions.
Still to come in 2010, Sarah will perform with the James Madison University Symphony Orchestra at the Virginia/West Virginia Music Teachers' Association Annual Convention in Harrisonburg, Virginia and with the Langley High School Philharmonic Orchestra in a guest appearance.
5:00pm, Atlas Performing Arts Center
This concert takes the idea of the dance through some twists, from Liszt's “Dance of Death” to the dead dancing on Bald Mountain, and concluding with Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, which Wagner referred to as “the apotheosis of the dance” because of its lively rhythms.
Every other year, the Capital City Symphony features the winner of the Ylda Novik Memorial Piano Competition. This year's winner, 15-year-old pianist Sarah Barham will be the guest artist for this concert.
- Liszt, Totentanz, with pianist Sarah Barham
- Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov, Night on Bald Mountain
- Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
Sarah Barham, 15, is a native of Bowie, Maryland and a homeschooled junior. She has been studying the piano for ten years, and her current teacher is Rosita Kerr Mang of Alexandria, Virginia.
In 2010, Sarah has performed on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage as a finalist of the NSO Young Soloists' Competition, at the Alden Theater in McLean, Virginia, at the Washington International Piano Festival, and at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts. Also in 2010, she has won 1st place in the Ylda Novik Memorial Concerto Competition, the VMTA State Concerto Competition, the MSMTA Spring Piano Solo Competition, the Judy Leonard Memorial Student Excellence Scholarship Competition, 2nd place in the Miriam Shields Gottlieb Memorial Piano Competition, and 1st place in the Virginia Northern District Auditions.
Still to come in 2010, Sarah will perform with the James Madison University Symphony Orchestra at the Virginia/West Virginia Music Teachers' Association Annual Convention in Harrisonburg, Virginia and with the Langley High School Philharmonic Orchestra in a guest appearance.
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